Research: Search Engines Analysis

One of the key means for accessing sites on the web is the use of search engines and web directories that make it possible to publicize and to search for web sites. Noteworthy or controversial information related to access to search engines and directories appears in the media coverage and organizations and related publications sections below.

Media Coverage

	Software Rams Great Firewall of China
	The news and propaganda wing behind the U.S. government's Voice of America broadcasts has commissioned software that lets Chinese Web surfers sneak around the boundaries set by their government, CNET News.com (April 16, 2003)

	Report Criticizes Google's Porn Filters
	Children using Google's SafeSearch feature, designed to filter out links to Web sites with adult content, may be shielded from far more than their parents ever intended, CNET News.com (April 10, 2003)

	Point. Click. Think?
	As students rely on the Internet for research, teachers try to warn of the web's snares, Washington Post (July 16, 2002)

	Google Falls for Yahoo!
	Evidence that the Google search engine partnership with Yahoo! may compromise its ability to index the Internet fairly, Hardin MD Notes (October 11, 2000)

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Organizations and Related Publications

Sex and the Internet OPG Executive Director Will Doherty presented a program entitled "Sex and the Internet" to the annual conference of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality in San Jose, CA, Online Policy Group (April 12, 2003)

The Great Firewall of China OPG Executive Director Will Doherty presented a program entitled "The Great Firewall of China: Filtering, Blocking, and Government Censorship" to the annual Computers, Freedom, and Privacy conference in New York City, Online Policy Group (April 3, 2003)

	Google, Alta Vista: Resist Chinese Censorship
	Human Rights Watch Letter to CEO of Google and AltaVista Company, Human Rights Watch (September 7, 2002)

	China: CPJ Concerned About Access to Google
	The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is very concerned by the Chinese government's apparent blocking of domestic access to the Google Internet search engine, Committee to Protect Journalists (September 4, 2002)

	Search Engines and Web Directories List
	An excellent annotated list of search engines and web directories from SearchEngineWatch., SearchEngineWatch.com (January 22, 2002)

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